Styrian Winelands area south-eastern Austria presented at 1:50, 000 in a series of contoured & GPS compatible outdoor leisure map from Freytag & Berndt with hiking & cycling routes, mountain huts, campsites & youth hostels, local bus stops, plus other tourist information. To see the list of currently available titles in this series please click on the series link. Freytag & Berndt’s outdoor leisure maps cover the whole of Austria at 1:50, 000, with selected popular areas also presented with 50K cartography enlarged to 1:35, 000 for larger print & clearer legibility. The maps have contours at 100m intervals in the mountainous areas & 50m elsewhere, enhanced by shading, graphic relief & colouring for woodlands. The overprint highlighting waymarked hiking trails is graded into three types: easy walks, mountain paths, & more difficult alpine sections. Waymarked trails including long-distance routes are annotated with their numbers and/or signs. The maps also highlight cycling & mountain biking routes, cross-country ski tracks, & Nordic walking tracks. Symbols indicate mountain huts, youth hostels, campsites & countryside hotels/inns, bus stops on local roads, car parks plus various facilities & places of interest. The maps have a 2-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks at 5’ intervals. Selected titles also have in the accompanying booklet (see below) an additional list of GPS waypoints indicated on the map. Map legend

Includes:: English.IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING: most titles come with booklets in GERMAN containing extensive additional information including an index of main locations, suggestions for walks (often accompanied by route profiles) & other recreational activities, lists of mountain huts & other recommended accommodation, etc. Unless specified in the title’s individual description, all the information is in German only & no English language version of the booklet is available. Some titles carry similar information on the reverse.

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Sublime landscapes, tranquil urban scenes, frolicking children; who would associate these images with Palestine. All too often the Western media show the country`s gloomy side, & Palestinians as aggressors. It is this that makes identifying with them very difficult. The Dutch designer Annelys de Vet invited Palestinian artists, photographers & designers to map their country as they see it. Given their closeness to the subject, this has resulted in unconventional, very human expressions of the landscape & the architecture, the cuisine, the music & the poetry of thought & expression. The drawings, maps & photographs made for the atals reveal individual life experiences; from preparing chickpeas to a manual on water pipe smoking, from historic dress to modern music. Pages containing humorous & caustic newspaper cartoons & invented Palestinian currency alternate with colourful cultural diaries & moving letters from prisoners. ...

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Meet Oliver Tate, 15. Convinced that his father is depressed (” Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner”) & his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, ”a hippy-looking twonk”, he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together. Meanwhile, he is also trying to lose his virginity
- before he turns sixteeen
- to his pyromaniac girlfriend Jordana. Will Oliver succeed in either aim? Submerge yourself in Submarine & find out...

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As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, & the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political left to block the Front National`s alarming ascendency, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, & overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged &, for our narrator Francois
- misanthropic, middle-aged & alienated
- life is set on a new course. Submission is a devastating satire, comic & melancholy by turns, & a profound meditation on faith & meaning in Western society.

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Londoners & visitors alike are fascinated by the life of the capital beneath their feet. Lost Rivers, pipes of many kinds, sewers, crypts & catacombs, tunnels used or abandoned, ring mains, railways, secret bunkers & pneumatic tubes are all there in a sometimes complex arrangement. This book tells the reader what can be found & seen right up to date, including the considerable engineering achievements of the past & present; the Roman amphitheatre under Guildhall; the first tunnel beneath the Thames, the world`s first underground railway, & the first proper sewerage system installed in any city. ...

Peel back the layers under a London street & you`ll discover a haunting, dreamlike world of h&-laid brick sewers, forgotten tube stations, World War II evacuation shelters, secret government bunkers, & tunnel boring machines laying new sewer, communication & transport grids. Bradley L. Garrett has worked with explorers of subterranean London to collect an astonishing array of images documenting forbidden infiltrations into the secret bowels of the city. This book takes readers through progressively deeper levels of London`s historical & contemporary architecture below the streets. Beautifully designed to allow for detailed viewing & featuring bespoke illustrations by artist Stephen Walter, Subterranean London reveals the locations few dare to go, & even fewer succeed in accessing. ...

Under the monumental Rome lies another Rome with its fascinating & unsuspected treasures of art & history. There are nympheums, places of pleasure & physical & spiritual refreshment; columbaria with their astonishing funerary architecture; & hypogeums & underground passages that still preserve precious works of art beneath churches, palaces & even in the basements of unpromising-looking houses. However, subterranean Rome does not consist only of mysterious & sacred places, for we also find urban & secular structures like the quarters of the Seventh Cohort of Guards, or the famous Golden House, the Domus Aurea. This text provides a cross-section that best embodies the variegated panorama of subterranean Rome. ...

Subterraneans is another frenetically typed (in three days) ride into the world of Jack Kerouac, for although classed as fiction The Subterraneans is, like all of his work, closely related to his own life while encapsulating his great vision of America. Leo Percepied, aspiring writer & self-styled free-wheeling bum, gravitates to the subterraneans, impoverished intellectuals who haunt the bars of San Francisco. One of them is Mardou Fox, part Negro, part Cherokee, beautiful & a little crazy, whose dark eyes full of suffering & sweetness find recognition in Leo. But, afraid of his growing involvement, Leo sets out to destroy their love through betrayal & drunkenness. ...